Stand by your beds at Fonsie Mealy’s Glengarriff sale

Cleaning an Old Master is a perilous enterprise that can have startling results. When a collector bought the Portrait of Jan de Middelste (1561-1623), Count of Nassau-Siegen, wearing armour and an orange sash, the Dutch nobleman portrayed was wearing a hat. Cleaning removed the hat, resulting in a much more pleasing composition – while exposing that formidable ...